Somebody PLEASE Go By Gus's and have a Sammich today...!!!

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TAF said:
I do...the Chef? He was friends of a couple of my friends on the Golf Team back then.

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Good guy! Known him since high school............many yrs ago!
 
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Nouveaux said:
Made sure to go have lunch there on Tuesday before the baseball game. Still a must-visit, even more-so now that the strip has lost it's soul.
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Yes x 100! What happened to the strip? Why is it so different now?
 
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When I was at UT, Gus' served sliced kielbasa on sandwiches. They took it off the menu when Gus sold, but man, it was good. Kielbasa on pumpernickel was my go-to sandwich.

I've always said that someone should open a Gus' or Sam & Andy's in Nashville. With all the UT alums here, they'd make a killing. We all crave it when we're not in Knoxville.
 
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Steamed Rueben for me. First Rueben I ever had. Best Rueben I've ever had. Only sandwich I've ever had at Gus'. Only sandwich I will ever order at Gus'. Ain't complainin' bout them fries either.

Introduced my son to Gus' when he took me to SoCar & UGA games for my birthdays. He's all over their philly steak. He asked to go back to Gus' after the games too.


Side bar...I don't know how popular this joint is, but 17th Street Market is a hidden game day gem. Long walk back to car. Walking by a bunch of smokers out front loaded with ribs and wings and such. Then they take the smoked wings and dunk them in the deep fryer after you order for some nice crispy. Then they dust them with curry powder. WOW! What a treat. Fantastic.
 
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Good talk and good memories from this thread...

I was there from 90-95 when the Strip was still great. We had a fairly tight group that lived in Clement all those years... and money being tight for everybody at the time, we'd all scrounge up $5 a piece on a Friday afternoon and head to the Lap at happy hour for $2.50 pitchers. Only one guy in the group was 21, but the Lap would let in anybody with a student ID. Everybody paid $5 and so with 7 or 8 folks, that was pretty much meant bottomless pitchers for everybody. We'd get there around 5pm and would stumble out by 9:30ish as the normal Friday night crowd was coming in. Hit Krystal's on the walk back to Clement... created memorable hangovers for Saturday home games.

Monday nights were Tall Paul at the Library ... and after that first semester in the Fall of 1990, that's how we all learned to schedule our Tues/Thurs classes...
 
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BigorangeBoy said:
The beer joint next to OCI was the Tap Room. AKA The Tap Dump. I worked there for a few months in 1980, drank there much longer…
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Got thrown in the slammer by Ktown's finest one evening in 1978 at the illustrious Tap Room. Was with some Lambda Chi buds inside the Tap Room with it's soaking wet floors (someone tended to pull the toilet off it's perch in the men's room night after night.. Heck, I bought some Duck shoes just so I could enter this sh*thole) when two college coeds ran into the dump from the side door. Two cops come in and apprehend the young UT students and took them outside to their squad cars where they are spread eagle on the squad cars. Apparently, they were just outside the door consuming a beer, which was illegal, when the cops turned the corner in a surprise attack. So, about a dozen of us in the bar walked outside to observe the arrest of the two violators and as I was standing there minding my own business, a Knox cop standing next to me threw down his cig butt onto the ground in front of me. I looked at him and said, "excuse me, but isn't thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat - and BOOM, I was spread eagle on the hood of the car being arrested. Nothing better spending the evening in the city drunk tank with some of your favorite local personalities. So yes, many fond, fond memories of the Tap Room
 
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Volador said:
Got thrown in the slammer by Ktown's finest one evening in 1978 at the illustrious Tap Room. Was with some Lambda Chi buds inside the Tap Room with it's soaking wet floors (someone tended to pull the toilet off it's perch in the men's room night after night.. Heck, I bought some Duck shoes just so I could enter this sh*thole) when two college coeds ran into the dump from the side door. Two cops come in and apprehend the young UT students and took them outside to their squad cars where they are spread eagle on the squad cars. Apparently, they were just outside the door consuming a beer, which was illegal, when the cops turned the corner in a surprise attack. So, about a dozen of us in the bar walked outside to observe the arrest of the two violators and as I was standing there minding my own business, a Knox cop standing next to me threw down his cig butt onto the ground in front of me. I looked at him and said, "excuse me, but isn't thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat - and BOOM, I was spread eagle on the hood of the car being arrested. Nothing better spending the evening in the city drunk tank with some of your favorite local personalities. So yes, many fond, fond memories of the Tap Room
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In the Fall of 1978 ( my freshman year), the Friday night before the Bama game we were all caught up in the riot on the strip. It all started when people threw things at a Bama fan’s car, then when a police cruiser drove by some nut threw a beer bottle at the cruiser, and it went to hell from there. I still have my 1979 spring yearbook, and the picture in there of me proudly standing on the Kerns Bread truck with a bunch of other fools is a part of not so great history for me to share with my grandchildren 😁
 
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BigorangeBoy said:
In the Fall of 1978 ( my freshman year), the Friday night before the Bama game we were all caught up in the riot on the strip. It all started when people threw things at a Bama fan’s car, then when a police cruiser drove by some nut threw a beer bottle at the cruiser, and it went to hell from there. I still have my 1979 spring yearbook, and the picture in there of me proudly standing on the Kerns Bread truck with a bunch of other fools is a part of not so great history for me to share with my grandchildren 😁
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Aaaaaahhhh, the old Kern's Bread Truck heist!!
 
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